Project Title:
Farm Business Survey – Yorkshire, Lancashire & Cheshire

Start date:
Ongoing

Project Lead Staff:
Joe Bonner – Head of Unit

Project Partners:
Rural Business
Research (RBR)

Other Project Staff:
Lynne Stretton – Senior Research Officer, Martin Riley – Research Officer, Oliver White – Research Officer, Lucy Peacock – Research Officer, Anne Green – Research Officer, Simon Walton – Research Officer, Caroline Wilson – Administrative Assistant, Sue Brown – Administrative Assistant

Project Aims & Overview:
The Farm Business Survey provides information on the physical and economic performance of farm businesses in England; to inform policy decisions on matters affecting farm businesses.

It is intended to serve the needs of government, government partners, farming and land management interest groups, and researchers.

The Farm Business Survey is an annual survey commissioned by the government under which a range of management accounting information on all aspects of farmer's and grower's businesses is collected. The survey uses a sample of farms and horticultural units that is representative of the national population of farms in terms of farm type, farm size and regional location.

The Rural Business Research Unit, maintains and publishes FBS Farm Business Benchmarking. Rural Business Research - a consortium of six University Research Centres - carries out the Farm Business Survey in England.

In England the Farm Business Survey is conducted on behalf of, and financed by, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the data collected in it are Crown Copyright.

Project Partners include: University of Nottingham, University of Reading, University of Newcastle, University of Reading, Duchy College.